Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Cynthia Rhodes became very clingy, perhaps thinking of leaving the set tomorrow, and she almost had Ronald all to herself, dancing with him all the time.

Of course, Ronald's dancing skills are not as superb as Patrick Swayze's, but fortunately, Mambo is not a very difficult dance. Under Cynthia's active leadership, the two of them danced very well.

Emil, the assistant director next to him, carried a video recorder and started filming the behind-the-scenes footage of the dance of Ronald Cynthia and Patrick Eleanor in the center of the crowd.

This is an additional task that Emil performs in addition to being an assistant director. He also has to shoot several detailed shots of the entire movie.

Nowadays, movie marketing likes to use talk shows or interview programs. With these tidbits, you can play the edited clips during the show to arouse the curiosity of the audience, and preferably also include some humorous passages.

"Bang...bang..." The fine champagne that Eddie brought from the city next door in a truck with a cold storage was opened bottle by bottle. Everyone danced, sang and drank, and everyone got high.

"Click", Ronald opened the door to his suite. Cynthia was beautiful in her arms, and her champagne-scented breath sprayed onto her face with heat.

Ronald had long been attracted by Cynthia's natural beauty. He didn't understand what this southern beauty was thinking about during the dance just now.

"Pa", Ronald turned on the light. Cynthia seemed a little embarrassed, and a natural blush climbed onto her cheeks.

"Don't turn on the light."

Ronald turned off the lights. Tonight at the hot spring resort hotel, all the lights were turned on to celebrate the completion of filming. The light from outside seemed to leak in through the window, illuminating a little of Cynthia's face.

"Um……"

Cynthia in real life doesn't seem to be like Penny in the movie. In other words, unlike a Hollywood actress who knows how to cater to men and women, Ronald found some of the feelings he had when he was a teenager, treated her gently, and suddenly the two of them were in perfect harmony.

An hour later, the lights outside the window finally went out, leaving only the faint moonlight shining through the window, which reflected Cynthia's white and shiny back beautifully.

Ronald gently put his hand on it, and Cynthia just hummed. She was so exhausted that she couldn't even open her eyes. Ronald took advantage of the situation and hugged her close to him, and the two hugged each other and fell asleep.

Early the next morning,

Ronald's biological clock is still in the struggle mode of filming. He woke up naturally at five o'clock in the morning.

Seeing Cynthia Rhodes sleeping soundly next to her, Ronald went to the living room to make a phone call and asked the kitchen to deliver all the breakfast to the room at six o'clock. I put on my running shoes and went for a run.

After running and taking a hot shower, Ronald waited for the full breakfast delivered by the hotel. Cynthia finally woke up.

"I don't know what you like to eat, so I ordered them all." Ronald pushed the breakfast cart into the room, just in time to see her stretching on the bed, a pair of white legs together, her toes Straighten. Girls who dance ballet are always so graceful.

"Are you always so considerate to girls?" Cynthia smiled.

"Not always, only to pretty girls." Ronald joked.

"If there is a boy around me who is so considerate to me, I will marry him." Cynthia also smiled and rushed into the bathroom to wash up.

"Why, isn't there such a person yet?" Ronald asked her.

Cynthia's voice came from inside, "Yes, yes, but he is younger than me. I don't think we may be able to grow old together in the future."

"Oh." Ronald waited for Cynthia to finish and walked to the table with her. Ronald also poured her a glass of milk and himself a glass of orange juice.

"Sometimes, it's not good to think too much. I used to know a ballerina girl... It's rare to be able to be moved by both of you. Who can tell what will happen in the future?"

…

The two said goodbye immediately in the morning. The men and women in Hollywood are like butterflies and bees. When they have nectar, they gather together and then go their separate ways.

At the end of his last day in North Carolina, Ronald and Eddie, who was daydreaming, returned to Los Angeles with all the equipment and samples.

The negatives for the film were shipped directly from the labs in the east to the Paramount Film Production Department.

Paramount's photofinishing and printing plants have branches in several major regions across the country. Ronald relied on his relationship with Ned Tanin to get a good price. Not only were they developed at their labs in the Southeast, but they also ended up borrowing Paramount's film editing equipment and copy production lines.

However, before that, the important thing he still had to do was to visit Walter Murch with the newly released working copy.

"That's all? Your original film duration isn't very long."

Murch moved all the footage into the rented editing suite at Paramount, along with Ronald and assistant director Emil. Counting the number of reels of film, Ronald had less material than a director like Coppola.

"Yes, I used a new method this time. Many shots were started at the same time during rehearsal. Often the first time the effect is better than the actual shooting, so it is very rare to shoot more than ten times for one shot. Overall I also saved some film.”

Ronald opened a large bucket bag that he brought and took out the "Merch Super Cut Tape" that Little Bud brought specially from the small factory in Staten Island.

Nowadays, all the new editing tapes are produced by the small factory that Ronald and Murch cooperate with. Even Murch himself has to ask Ronald to get the goods.

The response of this kind of tape is very good in Hong Kong. Jackie's demonstration effect there is very good. Once he used this kind of tape, many studios also discovered the use of this new type of tape. The edited copy can be directly screened without any Make a new copy, which can save the cost of a copy, so they all pay for it.

There is more demand, so Ronald can let those few workers start working every day, slowly produce, and store it in the warehouse during the off-season. When the amount of filming increases, he can ship more to sell.

In this way, starting work every day, the purchase of raw materials, labor costs, etc. will also be reduced. The average cost can be reduced a lot. When costs are lowered, there is room to lower prices, which will lead to better sales in the local market in America.

In America, the retail price of Ronald's tape has gradually reached only twice that of old-fashioned tape, and the wholesale price for production companies like Roger Coleman can be reduced to even lower.

Many studios shooting low-budget productions have also begun to use this tape because they want to save money on a copy.

Gradually, the reputation of "Merch Super Editing Tape" was not limited to a few high-level directors in America. Gradually, all practitioners began to purchase this tape.

"The quality of the product produced by your factory is indeed good and stable. It is a little worse than what I hand-made, but it is better than the stability. If I didn't let that friend make it, the quality would be much worse." Walter Murch picked up the product. Several large rolls of tape were placed on the editing table.

"This year's dividend will be good, just think it as my Christmas gift to the children," Ronald said with a smile, "Ah, this is not it, this is what I brought back from the crew. They use tapes of different materials to stick to the scene. . It worked very well. This time I was in two major locations and it didn’t cost me any money.”

Ronald put back several pieces of tape that had other uses.

Walter Murch shrugged, put the first tape on the editing machine, and began to compare it with his own chart of estimated shot times before shooting began.

"You seem to have the same idea as me. The shooting time I estimated in advance is very similar to your final filming time."

Walter watched for a while and suddenly said to Ronald.

"Really?" Ronald also became interested and looked at the duration of more than a dozen shots. As expected, it was very close to Murch's estimate.

"Maybe you are deeply influenced by Coppola's genre. I have been working with them for a long time, and I also use their method to estimate the length of the shots."

"Maybe." Ronald thought to himself, would learning editing thinking affect his work as a director? After all, some of my editing techniques were taught by Mo Qi.

After spending two days with Murchi, the two went through all the materials. Looking at them all, it turns out that there is a big gap between the dance scenes at the beginning and climax of the climax shot by Ronald and Murch's estimate.

"I didn't expect you to shoot like this." Murch was surprised. "Your dance scenes are very different from your 'break dancing'. It's a bit different from the original western cowboy movies and the fight scenes in Xiangjiang action movies." similar.

What's important is tacit cooperation to show the beauty of dance itself. Coupled with the fact that the chemistry between the two leads is palpable, this is also technically a good film. "

"Why are you watching Xiangjiang's movies too?" Ronald laughed. He didn't think so when he was filming. Maybe I subconsciously used some of the techniques from those movies.

"Many people are watching it. They think their route is very interesting and very different from Hollywood. Many people say that the one called Jackie is very similar to Buster Keaton in the early silent film period of Hollywood."

"Jackie? That's my buddy." Ronald laughed, "He's also the agent of our tape over there. I'll introduce you to him if I have the opportunity."

"I will synchronize the audio and video first, and then prepare the sound design. When you come back from vacation, we will start editing together." Murch nodded and said to Ronald.

"You can rough cut it first. You don't have to wait for me to come back. You taught me all my editing techniques. Besides, you also said that our ideas are similar. You can fine-tune it when I come back."

With Murch at the helm, Ronald was happy and at ease. He left his assistant Emil in the editing room to study and went on vacation to relax.

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